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Tag Archives: road spending
JOHN AUSTEN. Road spending incurs billion dollar new debts annually – nobody notices (Repost from 27 June 2016)
It’s traditional that election time in Canberra brings out the road lobbies who ask for ‘all that extra cash’ which governments raise from fuel excise to be ‘put back into our roads’. The problem is that the facts no longer … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Politics
Tagged Australian Automobile Association, Bureau of Infrastructure, John Austen, road spending, Transport and Regional Economics
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JOHN MENADUE. Road funding – what is going on.
Road funding is becoming a mess with quite serious misunderstandings of what is being spent and how much is being wasted. The benefits are of increasing doubt. In this blog I carried a post by John Austen ‘Road spending incurs … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Infrastructure, Media, Politics
Tagged John Menadue, road funding, road spending
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